Monday Update: Calling it the most stunning opening weekend in box office history might, if anything, be an understatement.

Prior to release, the debate was whether Avengers: Endgame might just possibly — if everything lined up perfectly — set two new records by debuting with $300M domestic and $1B globally.

Instead, it started with $357.1M domestic and $1.223B globally. That shatters the previous records, both held by Avengers: Infinity War with $257.6M and $640.5M.

The records don’t stop there.

Top per-theater average for a wide release with $76,601, crushing the previous record of $59,982 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Largest market share with 89.7% of the weekend’s top 12 films’ earnings, beating the previous record of Avengers: Age of Ultron with 84.5% in 2015.

Top overseas opening weekend with $866.5M, destroying the previous record of $443.1M by The Fate of the Furious in 2017.

Widest release of all time at 4,662 theaters, beating the previous record of last July’s Despicable Me 3 at 4,535.

Domestically, Endgame is already the fourth-highest grossing film of the past year, just from its opening weekend.

All in all, certainly a weekend to remember at the box office.

Comparisons

Total box office this weekend was $401.9M.

That’s +268.1% above last weekend and +28.0% above this same weekend last year, when predecessor Avengers: Infinity War led with a then-record $257.6M.

Year-to-date box office stands at $3.35M. That’s -11.1% behind this same date last year, up considerably from -16.2% after last weekend.

Most analysts are still predicting 2019’s box office to ultimately beat 2018’s, on the strength of this year’s anticipated strong upcoming slate of films, especially sequels.

Demographics

The audience demographics for Avengers: Endgame on its opening weekend were 59.7% male and 53.4% over age 25.

The audience demographics for The Curse of La Llorona and Penguins were not immediately available.

Among the other eight films in the top 10…

The most male audience in this weekend’s top 10 was Shazam! at 65.2%, while the most female audience was Little at 65.9%.

The most under-25 audience in this weekend’s top 10 was Avengers: Endgame at 46.6%, while the most over-25 audience was Breakthrough at 74.7%.

A full demographic breakdown of the top 30 movies this weekend, courtesy of BoxofficeProfile by Vertigo, is below. (Click to expand.)

Weekend Actuals (Domestic)

FRI, APR. 26 – SUN, APR. 28

WIDE (1000+)

#

TITLE

WEEKEND

LOCATIONS

AVG.

TOTAL

WKS.

DIST.

1

Avengers: Endgame

$357,115,007

—

4,662

—

$76,601

$357,115,007

1

Disney

2

Captain Marvel

$8,312,751

-9%

2,435

-218

$3,414

$413,841,798

8

Disney

3

The Curse of La Llorona

$8,045,744

-69%

3,372

0

$2,386

$41,830,045

2

Warner Bros. / New Line

4

Breakthrough

$6,806,342

-40%

2,913

149

$2,337

$26,616,572

2

20th Century Fox

5

Shazam!

$5,583,903

-66%

3,631

-552

$1,538

$131,213,630

4

Warner Bros.

6

Dumbo

$3,493,282

-47%

2,380

-845

$1,468

$107,259,840

5

Walt Disney Pictures

7

Little (2019)

$3,472,280

-58%

2,119

-548

$1,639

$35,881,535

3

Universal Pictures

8

Pet Sematary

$1,322,808

-73%

1,655

-1491

$799

$52,645,265

4

Paramount Pictures

9

Us (2019)

$1,175,255

-72%

1,255

-1009

$936

$172,878,890

6

Universal Pictures

10

Penguins

$1,142,500

-50%

1,815

0

$629

$5,812,926

2

Disney / Disneynature

11

Missing Link

$1,065,666

-74%

1,588

-1849

$671

$15,520,721

3

United Artists Releasing

LIMITED (100 — 999)

#

TITLE

WEEKEND

LOCATIONS

AVG.

TOTAL

WKS.

DIST.

1

Amazing Grace

$519,597

-14%

245

55

$2,121

$2,145,538

4

Neon

2

After (2019)

$403,333

-83%

607

-1531

$664

$11,649,072

3

Aviron Pictures

3

Hellboy

$354,575

-91%

927

-2376

$382

$21,533,408

3

Lionsgate / Summit

4

The Mustang

$291,585

-44%

277

-210

$1,053

$4,542,335

7

Focus Features

5

Kalank

$278,702

-78%

283

-37

$985

$2,482,587

2

FIP

6

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

$237,435

-71%

282

-780

$842

$159,689,095

13

Universal / DreamWorks Animation

7

Wonder Park

$188,074

-59%

249

-456

$755

$45,012,066

7

Paramount

8

Hotel Mumbai

$168,498

-66%

170

-144

$991

$9,260,998

6

Bleecker Street

9

Five Feet Apart

$139,035

-76%

259

-450

$537

$45,394,513

7

CBS Films

10

Unplanned

$137,176

-77%

251

-588

$547

$17,740,501

5

Pure Flix

11

High Life

$133,178

-51%

146

0

$912

$932,710

4

A24

12

The Best of Enemies

$125,232

-79%

227

-775

$552

$10,008,688

4

STX Entertainment

13

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part

$85,035

-37%

179

-43

$475

$105,714,361

14

Warner Bros.

14

Isn’t It Romantic

$47,215

-43%

120

-25

$393

$48,735,408

11

Warner Bros.

PLATFORM (1 — 99)

#

TITLE

WEEKEND

LOCATIONS

AVG.

TOTAL

WKS.

DIST.

1

Wild Nights with Emily

$91,317

40%

65

32

$1,405

$226,782

3

Greenwich Entertainment

2

The White Crow

$78,782

—

5

—

$15,756

$78,782

1

Sony Pictures Classics

3

The Upside

$53,261

-27%

93

-37

$573

$108,230,961

16

STX Entertainment

4

Hail Satan?

$48,209

82%

18

15

$2,678

$83,813

2

Magnolia Pictures

5

Woman At War

$45,751

-10%

46

-4

$995

$714,807

9

Magnolia Pictures

6

Alita: Battle Angel

$41,773

-40%

83

-33

$503

$85,654,454

11

20th Century Fox

7

Apollo 11

$41,216

-59%

62

-39

$665

$8,560,211

9

Neon

8

No Manches Frida 2

$40,122

-49%

56

-17

$716

$9,253,848

7

Lionsgate / Pantelion Films

9

Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral

$39,304

-73%

77

-119

$510

$73,076,764

9

Lionsgate

10

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

$31,374

-35%

13

5

$2,413

$189,724

3

Kino Lorber

11

Gloria Bell

$31,275

-51%

39

-61

$802

$5,540,472

8

A24

12

Little Woods

$31,155

-46%

29

-4

$1,074

$113,321

2

Neon

13

Her Smell

$31,122

-51%

40

16

$778

$168,000

3

Gunpowder & Sky

14

Fighting With My Family

$27,105

-32%

60

-24

$452

$22,900,395

11

MGM

15

The Beach Bum

$26,428

-47%

15

-21

$1,762

$3,477,588

5

Neon

16

Transit

$23,582

-11%

28

-2

$842

$766,459

9

Music Box Films

17

Green Book

$22,655

-54%

45

-70

$503

$85,067,021

24

Universal Pictures

18

The Aftermath

$20,169

-59%

37

-48

$545

$1,609,561

7

Fox Searchlight

19

The Public

$19,435

-26%

28

-15

$694

$517,630

4

Greenwich Entertainment

20

Never Look Away

$18,678

3%

6

-4

$3,113

$1,258,670

14

Sony Pictures Classics

21

Sunset

$12,059

138%

18

12

$670

$118,697

6

Sony Pictures Classics

22

Dogman

$11,317

-4%

9

4

$1,257

$50,934

3

Magnolia PicturesMagnolia Pictures

23

High on the Hog

$10,542

-30%

6

1

$1,757

$30,787

2

Indican Pictures

24

Ramen Shop

$9,965

38%

9

-1

$1,107

$54,272

6

Strand Releasing

25

Arctic

$9,741

-52%

32

-17

$304

$2,395,310

13

Bleecker Street

26

Rafiki

$9,500

-41%

7

1

$1,357

$40,201

2

Film Movement

27

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

$8,612

166%

4

3

$2,153

$22,960

2

Zeitgeist Films

28

Peterloo

$7,343

-80%

43

-49

$171

$145,940

4

Amazon Studios

29

Mia and the White Lion

$7,215

-86%

5

-62

$1,443

$390,310

3

Ledafilms Entertainment Group

30

Sauvage / Wild

$6,526

31%

2

1

$3,263

$30,230

3

Strand Releasing

31

Stan & Ollie

$6,099

713%

9

3

$678

$5,461,853

18

Sony Pictures Classics

32

Carmine Street Guitars

$6,090

—

1

—

$6,090

$9,225

1

Abramorama

33

Fast Color

$4,665

-88%

6

-19

$778

$61,148

2

Lionsgate

34

The Brink

$3,916

-21%

14

-1

$280

$96,056

5

Magnolia Pictures

35

Christ Stopped at Eboli

$3,879

62%

2

1

$1,940

$44,061

4

Rialto Pictures

36

They Shall Not Grow Old

$3,754

-87%

15

-100

$250

$17,947,082

19

Warner Bros.

37

Shoplifters

$3,578

204%

3

1

$1,193

$3,311,687

23

Magnolia Pictures

38

Capernaum

$3,373

-64%

9

-2

$375

$1,651,099

20

Sony Pictures Classics

39

The Invisibles

$2,830

-20%

4

-2

$708

$401,109

14

Greenwich Entertainment

40

Working Woman

$2,591

-49%

1

-2

$2,591

$35,582

5

Zeitgeist

41

Ash is Purest White

$2,127

-84%

5

-12

$425

$394,052

7

Cohen Media Group

42

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (40th Anniversary)

$2,099

-88%

23

-24

$91

$157,917

3

Trafalgar Releasing

43

Faith, Hope & Love

$1,794

-63%

1

-4

$1,794

$192,575

7

ArtAffects Entertainment

44

Body at Brighton Rock

$1,732

—

8

—

$217

$1,732

1

Magnolia Pictures

45

Chasing Portraits

$1,708

—

1

—

$1,708

$1,708

1

First Run Features

46

Run The Race

$1,604

-87%

8

-31

$201

$6,422,414

10

Roadside Attractions

47

Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey

$1,471

-66%

1

-1

$1,471

$28,669

3

Kino Lorber

48

3 Faces

$1,251

-73%

5

-1

$250

$66,232

8

Kino Lorber

49

The Last Resort

$937

344%

2

0

$469

$157,843

19

Kino Lober Films

50

Styx

$928

-83%

1

-2

$928

$67,879

9

Film Movement

51

Made Me Do It

$890

-35%

1

0

$890

$7,482

3

Indican Pictures

52

Ruben Brandt, Collector

$633

369%

3

0

$211

$114,533

11

Sony Pictures Classics

53

Hotel By The River

$621

-23%

1

0

$621

$24,955

11

Cinema Guild

54

The Wild Pear Tree

$489

-46%

1

0

$489

$31,603

13

Cinema Guild

55

The Heiresses

$470

—

1

—

$470

$72,505

15

Distrib Films US

56

Free Solo

$297

-57%

2

-1

$149

$17,539,736

31

National Geographic Entertainment

57

Virginia Minnesota

$247

-24%

1

0

$247

$16,031

9

Indican Pictures

58

Suburban Birds

$51

-95%

1

-1

$51

$6,677

4

Cinema Guild

Sunday Update: Avengers: Endgame exploded into multiplexes this weekend to resounding acclaim and extraordinary box office returns, smashing nearly every record in the books and stunning even the most bullish of industry pundits on its way to an unbelievable $350 million opening, far surpassing the $257.6 million record held by last year’s Avengers: Infinity War and becoming the first movie in history to surpass $300 million in its opening weekend in North America. The debut represents an enormous 36% jump over Infinity War‘s already-massive debut weekend and the highest per-theater average of all time ($75K) for a film opening in wide release, easily besting Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ previous record of $59,982.

Overseas, Endgame easily broke not only The Fate of the Furious‘s international opening-weekend record of $443.1 million but Infinity War‘s global opening weekend record of $640.5 million (which didn’t include China, where Endgame made a record $330.5 million over its first five days) with a jaw-dropping $859 million, bringing the 22nd installment in the MCU to an unprecedented $1.209 billion globally in just five days. It is the first film ever to surpass $1 billion global in its opening weekend, and the eighth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to have crossed that threshold.

The powerhouse debut lifted the overall weekend box office to record levels–a feat accomplished by Endgame alone–and served as a remarkable climax to cinema’s most profitable franchise ever.

Going into the weekend, no one questioned whether Endgame–the finale to the current cycle in the franchise–would break the all-time record. Not only is it one of the most anticipated films in history, it’s the culmination of an epic storyline that has unspooled over an unbelievable 22 films in just over a decade and redefined modern moviegoing as we know it. In truth, the episodic nature of the film series and Infinity War‘s cliffhanger ending made Endgame less like the final installment of a movie franchise than the series finale of a beloved TV show–albeit one with a mega budget that played in multiplexes as opposed to people’s living rooms.

Heading into the weekend, Endgame set a pre-sales record on Fandango, having sold five times as many tickets as Infinity War in advance of its release and selling out over 8,000 showings by Wednesday morning. Demand skyrocketed so high that many theaters added extra showings of the three-hour plus film over the weekend, with some even screening it on a 24-hour basis to accommodate the overwhelming clamor by audiences to see it right out of the gate. That helped overcome the film’s epic 181-minute running time, which would ordinarily have limited the number of screenings offered per day.

It certainly didn’t hurt that Endgame debuted on the highest number of screens ever in North America at 4,662, eclipsing Despicable Me 3‘s 4,529 (not to mention Infinity War‘s 4,474). With a 96% “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, reviews also surpassed those for Infinity War (which came in at 85%) and nearly every other Marvel Cinematic Universe installment aside from Black Panther, which finished just a tick higher at 97%. Audiences predictably ate it up, with Endgame receiving a perfect “A+” CinemaScore and a 92% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Believe it or not, Endgame wasn’t the only film in theaters this weekend. Its MCU stablemate Captain Marvel benefitted from the hype by rising two spots to second place in its eighth weekend, finishing the weekend with an estimated $8.05 million and a super-powered $413.5 million to date. It has now surpassed both Captain America: Civil War ($408.08 million) and Iron Man 3 ($409.01 million) to become the fifth highest-grossing MCU installment of all time.

In third place, last weekend’s No. 1 finisher The Curse of La Llorona brought in an estimated $7.5 million, a steep 72% drop from its $26.3 million debut. Nonetheless, the Warner Bros./New Line horror film now has a good $41.2 million after ten days. Fellow sophomore release Breakthrough boasted a better second weekend hold with faith-based audiences, dipping 44% to an estimated $6.3 million for a total of $26.1 million after 12 days of play.

After holding well over the last two weekends, Warner Bros./New Line’s superhero comedy Shazam! took an understandably sizable hit in fifth place thanks to the overwhelming market presence of Endgame, dropping 66% to an estimated $5.5 million in its fourth weekend and a $131.1 million total to date.

Sixth place went to Universal’s Little, which brought in an estimated $3.4 million, bringing the wish-fulfillment comedy to a decent $35.8 million after three weeks of release. In seventh was Disney’s Dumbo, which dipped 51% to an estimated $3.2 million, giving the live-action remake a total of $107 million after five weeks. of release.

Rounding out the Top 10, Paramount’s Pet Sematary dipped to eighth with an estimated $1.29 million and a total of $52.6 million after four weeks, ninth went to Universal’s Us with an estimated $1.14 million in its sixth weekend for a $172.8 million total to date, and Disneynature’s Penguins fell 54% to tenth with an estimated $1.05 million and $5.7 million after 12 days of release.